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Dr. Thadious Davis to deliver fourth annual Gaines lecture

Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Dr. Thadious Davis will deliver the fourth annual Ernest J. Gaines Lecture on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on Thursday, October 27, at 11:00 a.m.  Dr. Davis, who is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a lecture titled "The Afterlives of Southern Rememory: Ernest J. Gaines' Narratology." 

Dr. Davis is the author of Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature (2011), Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (2003), and Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context (1982).

The lecture will be held in the Gaines Center hallway, located on the third floor of Dupré Library. The event is free and open to the public.

Speaker/performer name: 
Dr. Thadious Davis
Room name/number: 
Ernest J. Gaines Center Hallway
Event contact email: 
Event contact phone: 
(337) 482-1848
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